Originally Posted by
brianinc-ville
Hey. I'm a grown man, usually pretty much in control of my emotions, but when a car driver harasses me in traffic, I find that something just snaps and in a split second it I'm riding after them at top speed, ready to knock on their window and start a confrontation. This tactic never helps anything, and I have a feeling that one of these days it'll get me shot. People have guns around here. I'd like to stop doing that kind of thing, but it happens so fast. All the usual yoga-breathing relaxation techniques don't seem to work on that hair-trigger adrenaline response.
Anybody have experience with impulse-modification techniques that might work?
If I allow a crappy driver to cause me to feel rage, I am giving a complete stranger way too much
control of my life. It's
my day off,
my bike ride, and I'm not
wasting them on someone I don't even know.
Believing the above has worked for me 100% of the time. I smile at them. They are just ignorant dipshyts, afterall, right?